‘Certain inspectors have leaked info on Iranian scientists’

TEHRAN, Jan. 15 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said that there is evidence that certain international inspectors, who have travelled to Iran to inspect (nuclear) facilities, have provided terrorist groups with Iranian nuclear scientists’ particulars. Mehmanparast made the remarks on Saturday on the sidelines of a ceremony held to commemorate the memory of Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, an Iranian graduate of Sharif University of Technology in chemical engineering and an official at the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, who was assassinated in Tehran on January 11. “Certain people travelled to our country as inspectors and identified nuclear scientists, and provided terrorist groups with their names. We will pursue the matter with international forums and will discredit them,” he stated. “The enemy explored all ways to prevent the progress of the Islamic Republic of Iran and achieved nothing. Now it has taken actions like assassination, which are totally indefensible,” he added. “Those who talk about human rights and claim to be campaigning against terrorism are in fact disgracing themselves by taking such actions.” On Saturday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry also issued two protest notes addressed to the U.S. and British governments holding them accountable for the terrorist attack on the Iranian academic. The message addressed to the U.S. government, read, “According to authentic documents and reliable information, the assassination plot was directed, supported, and planned by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and was carried out with the direct involvement of the agents affiliated with this organization, and the government is directly responsible for it and should be answerable based on international regulations and rights and bilateral commitments.” In the note addressed to the British government, the Foreign Ministry pointed to the remarks that MI6 chief Sir John Sawers made on October 28, 2010, in which he said, “Stopping nuclear proliferation cannot be addressed purely by conventional diplomacy. We need intelligence-led operations to make it more difficult for countries like Iran to develop nuclear weapons.”